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"Downton Abbey" fans, you may want to sit down before reading this: Maggie Smith may be ready to leave the show. In an interview with London's Sunday Times newspaper promoting her new film, "The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel," the actress indicated that she's ready to say goodbye to playing Violet, the tart-tongued Dowager Countess of Grantham. "They say this is the last one, and I can’t see how it could go on," she said in response to speculation about the future of the costume drama, which ended its fifth season on PBS with a heartwarming Christmas special Sunday night and is...

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"Downton Abbey" fans, you may want to sit down before reading this: Maggie Smith may be ready to leave the show.
In an interview with London's Sunday Times newspaper promoting her new film, "The Second Best Exotic Marigold...

The first time Casey Jane Ellison took the stage as a stand-up comedian, things didn't go well.
"I opened with, 'Don't worry, I'll lose the weight,'" she recalls. "And there was silence. It did not feel very good."
That early...

We have been told that the eighth season of “Foyle’s War,” which made its U.S. debut on the streaming service Acorn TV this week, will be the last. ITV, which produces the series in Britain, has said it, and creator-writer Anthony Horowitz has concurred....

In a large workshop at CBS Television City on the edge of Hollywood, the palace of Versailles was slowly taking shape.
A platoon of set builders was hard at work on a December morning creating the imposing columns, ornate tapestries and swooping...

"Helix" (Syfy, Fridays). Ronald D. Moore, who rebooted "Battlestar Galactica" and brought the highland romantic fantasy "Outlander" to the TV screen, is an executive producer of and contributing writer to this well-wrought...

“I liked your film, but this is disgusting.”
It was a dramatic and confrontational scene at the post-screening Q&A for the documentary “Welcome To Leith” on Thursday night, as many in the audience turned against the filmmakers and festival staff over...

When filmmaker Orlando von Einsiedel first arrived in eastern Congo to film what ultimately became the Oscar-nominated documentary "Virunga," he'd hoped to showcase an inspiring story of about 500 lionhearted park rangers who risk their lives to...

Who do you think should win the Grammy this year? Polymath actor/director/artist/etc. James Franco? High camp maestro John Waters? Recently deceased comedy diva Joan Rivers? Inspirational disco queen Gloria Gaynor? Or should the prized award go to...

"Downton Abbey" won the Screen Actors Guild Award on Sunday for performance by an ensemble in a television drama series.
The PBS period piece beat "Boardwalk Empire" (HBO), "Homeland" (Showtime), "House of...

Seventy years ago, British, Soviet and American forces were unprepared for the atrocities they encountered when they liberated the Nazi concentration camps. Combat and newsreel cameramen recorded these harrowing discoveries at camps that included...

Listen up, kids. It's not nice to pick on people.
Unless, of course, the target is an evil, arrogant football team that may have been caught doing something they weren't supposed to be doing (again). Then feel free to pile on with the rest of the...

Hoping to find its next "Downton Abbey," PBS is reaching back to one of its favorite epochs: the Civil War.
The public broadcaster revealed Monday that it has ordered an untitled historical drama from executive producer Ridley Scott, the...

"Transparent" keeps on racking up the accolades.
The freshly crowned Golden Globe winner is among the television nominees for the 26th GLAAD Media Awards, announced Wednesday.
Other programs nominated for the awards, which "recognize...

The event: British Consul General Chris O’Connor hosted an afternoon tea Sunday to celebrate “Wolf Hall,” the upcoming six-part TV adaptation of Hilary Mantel’s award-winning novels about Thomas Cromwell and King Henry VIII. The series is to premiere...

Benedict Cumberbatch has apologized for offending people by using the "outmoded" term "colored actors."
"The Imitation Game" and "Sherlock" star came under fire following a "Tavis Smiley Show" interview...

When you run a small, low-cost carrier with a tiny marketing budget, you have to be creative to get publicity.
That explains why Las Vegas-based Allegiant Air has allowed a television crew to film a game show in the cabin of its planes during regularly...

You can call her Dame Hilary Mantel.
The British writer was awarded her damehood by Prince Charles in a ceremony at Buckingham Palace on Friday for her services to literature.
Mantel is best known for her novels "Wolf Hall" and "Bring...